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as in raincoats
a coat made of water-resistant material
he put on his slicker and boots and headed out into the rain
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as in sophisticates
a person with the outlook, experience, and manners thought to be typical of big city dwellers
dressed in their designer duds, the out-of-state slickers stood out amongst the locals at the harvest supper
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Recent Examples of slickers
City slickers will definitely get a bang for their buck with this place, which is a lot more spacious than a shoebox on the Upper East Side.
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Madeleine Marr,
Miami Herald,
17 Nov. 2025
During the Waleses' trip to Canada in October 1991, Diana made time between touring an AIDS hospice and a women's shelter to join William, 9, and Harry, 7, on a visit to Niagara Falls, where the trio donned rain slickers for a wet and wild voyage on the Maid of the Mist.
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Stephanie Sengwe,
People.com,
31 Aug. 2025
Madeleine Marr,
Miami Herald,
17 Nov. 2025
During the Waleses' trip to Canada in October 1991, Diana made time between touring an AIDS hospice and a women's shelter to join William, 9, and Harry, 7, on a visit to Niagara Falls, where the trio donned rain slickers for a wet and wild voyage on the Maid of the Mist.
—
Stephanie Sengwe,
People.com,
31 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for slickers
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People also moved quickly to capitalize on the weather, riding bicycles through the area while selling raincoats and ponchos to fans caught outside before conditions began to clear.
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Porch goose owners are known for going all out, especially around the holidays, with tiny raincoats, Santa robes, itsy-bitsy bikinis, graduation caps, bunny ears, and more.
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Heartland churchgoers, urban sophisticates, football neophytes—everyone got swept up in his will to win.
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Despite parents’ efforts, allowances aren’t necessarily minting a new generation of financial sophisticates.
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The research team plans to return to the Diamantina Fracture Zone to survey the rest of the trench in the hopes of finding more whale fossils and new forms of life, and the discovery raises the possibility of learning more about whale evolution by exploring the ocean’s other deep-sea trenches.
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Similar hard-substrate communities were also observed on rocks in the Aleutian, Kuril‑Kamchatka, Atacama, Puysegur, Atacama, and Mussau trenches.
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As long as the overall drink remains sufficiently boozy, cocktails that contain citrus—such as margaritas, daiquiris, and cosmopolitans—can also work well or just require a few slight tweaks.
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Seedlip is ideal for non-alcoholic spritzes, palomas, cosmopolitans and similar classics.
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The American team could certainly have done without the aggravation of running to the pro shop to buy alternative waterproofs in 2010 because they were getting soaked in their official gear.
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“Slickers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slickers. Accessed 4 Jul. 2026.
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